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Title: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: Lysmata Debelius on October 19, 2018, 10:37:45 PM: I used to use dropbox public folder to upload images for forum posts, but that doesn't seem to work anymore.
Is there a way to use GDrive? Or something else convenient?
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: TimothyEllis on October 19, 2018, 10:40:11 PM: You can attach to the bottom of posts.

Unfortunately, the mod which allows for putting attached images in specific places in a post, had undesirable side effects and had to be removed.

So limited to putting attachments on the end of the post.
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: Lysmata Debelius on October 19, 2018, 10:42:47 PM: OK Thanks, I tried that now and it works. Image gets resized a bit - but I don't suppose there's any way to avoid that.
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: Mark Gardner on October 19, 2018, 10:44:43 PM: Personally, I upload them to my website, but you can upload them to twitter or instagram. I suggest setting up a free wordpress site even if you don't plan to blog. They have some great image tools.
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: Lysmata Debelius on October 19, 2018, 10:53:15 PM: Quote from: Grim Gardner on October 19, 2018, 10:44:43 PM
Personally, I upload them to my website, but you can upload them to twitter or instagram. I suggest setting up a free wordpress site even if you don't plan to blog. They have some great image tools.

I've actually been uploading them to my website as well, but I wondered if there was a better solution :) I could use my wordpress blog, that's a good idea.
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: Anarchist on October 19, 2018, 11:06:01 PM: imgur
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: Tom Wood on October 19, 2018, 11:32:29 PM: I use my Wordpress dot com site.
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: Jeff Tanyard on October 20, 2018, 05:55:14 AM: Quote from: Anarchist on October 19, 2018, 11:06:01 PM
imgur

This.
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: Becca Mills on October 20, 2018, 06:38:57 AM: I use Facebook. Post the image with the audience set to "Only me." Open it, right-click on the image, choose "Open image in new tab." Use the new tab's URL.
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: ragdoll on October 20, 2018, 07:05:42 AM: Quote from: Becca Mills on October 20, 2018, 06:38:57 AM
I use Facebook. Post the image with the audience set to "Only me." Open it, right-click on the image, choose "Open image in new tab." Use the new tab's URL.

Nice trick! I put something on twitter today to show here and just told twitter people to ignore it. I like your solution a lot more - although I will probably set up an IG account or imgur
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: Tonyonline on October 20, 2018, 09:00:10 PM: I use Postimage.org (https://postimages.org). It's free, can re-size images and has a variety of links for websites, forums, etc.
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: She-la-te-da on October 29, 2018, 01:40:16 AM: TinyPic. Or imgur. I gave up on Photobucket because it was slow and I wasn't going to pay to put up a random picture every now and again. TinyPic is owned by them, but so far works better uploading and no issues otherwise.
Title: Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
Post by: Jan Hurst-Nicholson on October 31, 2018, 04:17:00 AM: Quote from: Tonyonline on October 20, 2018, 09:00:10 PM
I use Postimage.org (https://postimages.org). It's free, can re-size images and has a variety of links for websites, forums, etc.

I've also started using this.